The provided bar chart indicates the ten countries with the highest electric production and consumption in the world in 2014.
China was at the top of the list, with 5,398 billion kWh of electricity generation and 5,322 billion kWh of consumption, and the United States, at second place, produced 4,099 billion kWh of electricity and consumed 3,866 billion kWh of this amount. It is noticeable that these two countries had the most generation and consumption of power among these countries.
It is noteworthy that Russia, at third place, had a slight difference between generation and usage, by 19 billion kWh. After that, it was followed by these countries respectively: Japan, India, Canada, France, and Brazil, which had more generation of power than consumption.
In contrast, Germany had more consumption of power, with 582.5 billion kWh of consumption and 526.6 billion kWh of production. It was the only country that had negative growth of energy. After that, the Republic of Korea, with the lowest amount of both production and consumption, was at the end of the chart.
Overall, in 2014, China and the United States, with the most difference from others, were at the top of the list, and the Republic of Korea was at the end of it. Germany, unlike others, had consumed more electricity than it produced.